Saturday, May 30, 2015

5/31/15 Desert's Supreme Admiral

Recently I had a request for a picture of Desert's Supreme Admiral. I was able to locate some photos, and although I didn't know much about the horse, his name was very familiar. So why not look a little further. The place to start is with Desert's Supreme Admiral's breeder, Walter J. Bush. Mr. Bush was a business man who grew up on a farm in Missouri and had American Saddlebreds. He decided to begin raising American Saddlebreds in 1975. He founded Desert Oasis Ranch in Chandler Arizona and began breeding some very good American Saddlebreds, such as Mountain Highland memories, CH Memories' Citation, CH Memories' Paragon and Desert's Supreme Memories. Perhaps an even greater contribution was helping to create the ASHA database so that he and others could better research bloodlines of the American Saddlebred. What a gift! Mr. Bush passed away last fall at the age of 85.

Walt Bush bred horses for 13 years, when in 1988, he decided to have a dispersal sale of his breeding stock and prospects. Although he stated in his catalog that he was getting out of the breeding business, he bought back several of his horses, including Mountain Highland Memories, and he continued to breed horses until the time of his death. One of the horses he did not put through the dispersal sale in 1988 was Desert's Supreme Admiral. He continued to own him for his entire life and used him as a breeding stallion. Born in 1985, his last offspring was foaled in 2005.

Here is a look at the pedigree of Desert's Supreme Admiral, and a few of his colts.

Desert's Supreme Admiral

CH Courageous Admiral

Wing's Fleet Admiral

CH Wing Commander

The Genius' Queen

Indiana JEM (BHF)

Indiana Ace

Courageous Tillie

Desert's Queen Anna

Sultan's Santana

Supreme Sultan

Grand View's Majorette (BHF)

With A Star

Private Contract

Starheart's Cinderella

CH Courageous Admiral, his sire

Wing's Fleet Admiral, his grandsire

Sultan's Santana, his dam's sire

CH Technistar, a WGC 3 gaited horse and full brother to

Cinderella's Starheart who was Desert's Supreme Admiral's 3rd dam.

Here are five pictures of Desert's Supreme Admiral

Here are three of his breeding sons and all were bred by Walter Bush:

Desert's Supreme Gold

out of Star's Flying Flower, a full sister to the dam of Town Flower (BHF)

Desert's Supreme Memories

out of Desert's Precious Memories by Mountain Highland Memories

He was a good 5gaited show stallion for Virgil Helm

Dylann's Desert Admiral

out of Supreme Cappio by Longview's Paladin

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